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Posts tagged with 'finland' at MetaFilter.Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:06:46 -0800Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:06:46 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The spiders hiding in the Finnish Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.metafilter.com/163231/The%2Dspiders%2Dhiding%2Din%2Dthe%2DFinnish%2DMuseum%2Dof%2DNatural%2DHistory
"<a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160413-the-museum-filled-with-poisonous-spiders-that-just-wont-die">In around 1963</a>, curators became aware of the presence of some kind of exotic spider in the <a href="https://www.luomus.fi/en">museum</a>. Following a sudden explosion of sightings in the winter of 1970, they decided to carry out a systematic search, which revealed an infestation on the whole ground floor of the building. There were spiders everywhere; in cupboards and drawers, on desks and shelves and behind pictures on the walls." tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.163231Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:06:46 -0800severiinaPart Finnish, part Native Americanhttp://www.metafilter.com/161566/Part%2DFinnish%2Dpart%2DNative%2DAmerican
In the Great Lakes region there are people with roots in Finland and among indigenous North American peoples. It's impossible to know how exactly many of these so-called 'Findians' exist, but their numbers are estimated in the hundreds.<a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/findians__the_story_of_finns_distant_cousins/9087943?origin=rss"> Author Katja Kettu, journalist Maria Seppälä and photographer Meeri Koutaniemi documented their lives over the course of three years. Their experiences form the basis for their book, 'Findian country'</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161566Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:19:18 -0800infiniHilarious Proms encore with audience participationhttp://www.metafilter.com/161542/Hilarious%2DProms%2Dencore%2Dwith%2Daudience%2Dparticipation
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04470vv">performs</a> and has the audience perform with him a Finnish folk song My Darling is Beautiful (Minun kultani kaunis on). tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161542Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:20:16 -0800severiinaEinojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)http://www.metafilter.com/161274/Einojuhani%2DRautavaara%2D1928%2D2016
The Finnish composer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/28/einojuhani-rautavaara-obituary">Einojuhani</a> <a href="http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-finnish-composer-einojuhani-rautavaara-has-died">Rautavaara</a> died on Wednesday at the age of 87. He wrote eight symphonies, nine operas, 12 instrumental concertos, plus a wide variety of orchestral, chamber, instrumental, choral and vocal works. Some examples of his music:
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDLh5Ozyglk">Fiddlers</a> for string orchestra (1952).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo1CB76DiTY">A Requiem in Our Time</a> for brass ensemble (1953).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tMZyc2sCo">Symphony no. 3</a> (1961).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFIGoB7rK70">Piano Concerto no. 1</a> (1969).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekcd9xq5ZQM">Vigilia</a> ('All-Night Vigil in Memory of St. John the Baptist for mixed choir and soloists' / 1971-2).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO3YRZWLvQo">Cantus Arcticus</a> (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra / 1972).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmReX6mFDps">Annunciations</a> (Concerto for Organ / 1977).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwI2xizqRAA">Angels and Visitations</a> (1978).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk1RwccTuuk">Angel of Dusk</a> (Concerto for double bass / 1980) [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/74367/The-lowdown">previously</a>].
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpzt3DNqF1M&list=PL36B43813F3E97A8E">Symphony no. 7</a> ('Angel of Light' / 1994).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNB8jbnuwo">Rasputin</a> (opera / 2001-3).
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GBhwvnYin8">Incantations</a> (Concerto for Percussion / 2008). tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161274Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:28:47 -0800misteraitchpeace and quiethttp://www.metafilter.com/161232/peace%2Dand%2Dquiet
<a href="http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-is-your-brain-on-silence-rp">This Is Your Brain on Silence</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161232Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:50:57 -0800infiniSomeone thinks you're pranking them with mämmihttp://www.metafilter.com/160185/Someone%2Dthinks%2Dyoure%2Dpranking%2Dthem%2Dwith%2Dmmmi
<a href="http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com/">Finnish Nightmares</a> — Comic about uncomfortable social situations, uncomfortable everything. <a href="https://www.sarjakuvakauppa.fi/catalogsearch/result/?___store=default_en&q=finnish+nightmares&___from_store=default">Also in atomic form.</a> ("For Finns we recommend they would read this book behind closed doors. Bursting with laughter in public is so embarrassing").
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/finnishnightmares/">Facebook</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.160185Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:55:04 -0800Johnny WallflowerKaleva's storieshttp://www.metafilter.com/159617/Kalevas%2Dstories
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34063157">Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland</a> <em>JRR Tolkien first discovered the tale [Kullervo's Tale] as a schoolboy in Birmingham. His father had died when he was a young child, and his mother passed away when he was 12, so he had been an orphan himself for some years when he came across the Finnish epic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala">Kalevala</a> - and within it the tale of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala#The_Kullervo_cycle"> Kullervo</a> - during his final year at school.
It had a huge impact.</em>
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The Finnish Epic Kalevala<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/43116/Sing-my-songs-and-say-my-sayings"> previously</a> and<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/25349/Sacred-Texts"> previously</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.159617Tue, 17 May 2016 05:27:11 -0800infiniBreaking up is easy...if you have the right vesselhttp://www.metafilter.com/158027/Breaking%2Dup%2Dis%2Deasyif%2Dyou%2Dhave%2Dthe%2Dright%2Dvessel
And it's even easier with a bit of international cooperation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgLr4MMrPM">Time lapse video</a> of USCGC <a href="http://www.uscg.mil/d9/cgcBristolBay/">Bristol Bay</a> and <a href="http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=94">CCGS Samuel Risley</a> working together to break ice from Sarnia to Windsor, Ontario, in one day. Further inland, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/province-beefs-up-amphibex-ice-breakers-with-re-engineered-parts-1.3404496">Amphibex icebreaking machines are used to break ice on the Red River in Manitoba</a> to <a href="http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/02/19/manitobas-spring-flood-fight-starts-this-weekend">prevent flooding from ice jamming</a> ahead of <a href="http://gov.mb.ca/mit/floodinfo/floodoutlook/forecasts_reports.html#spring_flood_outlook">spring</a>. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to icebreaking... <strong>Breaking ice on rivers is a start...</strong>
<a href="https://youtu.be/A88wmUAbEGM">Red River icebreaker</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6xUxGKrqmA">Ride an Amphibex icebreaker</a>
The Canadian Coast Guard uses hovercraft to break ice in other areas that larger icebreaking vessels can't reach.
<a href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/l95-004#.Vu2afuIrKUk">This is how they work</a>:
<em>In a low speed mode, the hovercraft causes an air cavity to form under the sheet as it rides onto it. This causes a section of the sheet to become unsupported and fail in bending under the action of its own weight. In a high speed mode, the motion of the craft over the sheet sets up large amplitude flexural gravity waves.</em>
Two Canadian hovercraft, the CCGS <em><a href="http://www.marinfo.gc.ca/en/Flotte/SipuMuin.asp">Sipu Muin</a></em> and CCGS <em><a href="http://www.marinfo.gc.ca/en/Flotte/Mamilossa.asp">Mamilossa</a></em>, both based in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, perform extensive icebreaking duties:
<a href="http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/hovercraft-takes-aim-at-thick-st-lawrence-ice-1.2311958">Hovercraft takes aim at thick St. Lawrence ice</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9I6GVNOdGU">The <em>Sipu Muin</em> on the St-Francois river for an ice-breaking job</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRniihSUs4">The <em>Sipu Muin</em> on the Restigouche River</a>
<strong>Canada, of course, isn't the only place with icy rivers...</strong>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCt_Ll1LVY">Icebreaking on the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia</a>
<strong>But the job gets bigger on the Great Lakes...</strong>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfR1VZcwosg">What Happens When a Ship This Size Gets Trapped in Ice?</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3kvOdSXxME">Canadian Coast Guard reconnaisance footage of icebreaking from above on Lake Superior</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5f-HOFGLO4">CCGS <em>Griffon</em> on Lake Erie</a>
<strong>And even bigger in coastal and Arctic waters...</strong>
<a href="https://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/default.asp?lang=En&n=CE69E4DD-1">Animation of ice in Canadian waters in the last 10 days</a>
<a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/?lang=En:">Current ice conditions from the Canadian Ice Service</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB99k4KXth4">Titans des mers : Brise glace géant</a> (Titans of the sea: giant icebreaker), featuring the Canadian icebreaker CCGS <a href="http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/CCGS-Henry-Larsen"><em>Henry Larsen</em></a>
The <em>Henry Larsen</em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxoOncSrtB4"> in action</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3j1pyxbWSo">See and hear the <em>Henry Larsen's</em> air bubbler system here</a>
The planned CCGS <a href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674coast_guard_new_1.3_billion_arctic_icebreaker_to_be_ready_by_2022/"><em>John G Diefenbaker</em></a> may join the Canadian icebreaker fleet by 2022.
<strong>Many countries use icebreakers...</strong>
Not any vessel can be an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker">icebreaker</a>, though. First you need an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_class">ice class</a> designation.
<a href="http://news.usni.org/2013/07/23/u-s-coast-guards-2013-reivew-of-major-ice-breakers-of-the-world">U.S. Coast Guard 2013 Review of Major Icebreakers of the World</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_icebreakers">Wikipedia list of icebreakers</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-3JnXiAiY">Discovery &amp; Documentary - Icebreaker ships in action</a>
<strong>So here are just a few of these icebreakers and their work, by country...</strong>
<strong>United States</strong>
The US has two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar-class_icebreaker">polar class</a> icebreakers, USCGC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Polar_Star_(WAGB-10"><em>Polar Star</em></a> and and USCGC <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Polar_Sea_(WAGB-11)">Polar Sea</a></em>. Only the <em>Polar Star</em> is currently operating. A third vessel, the USCGC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Healy_(WAGB-20)">Healy</a>, is also polar capable.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H49_SKJkB64">Nation's only operating Polar icebreaker, CGC Healy, breaks ice for Nome bound tanker</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/DaDgXkvXHmY">Walking tour of USCGC Healy</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaoXzEm8c2I">USCG Mackinaw in March, 2002 icebreaking in the St. Marys River and Whitefish Bay</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbqG8do4z9Y">Aboard the USCG <em>Bristol Bay</em></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE7twcf81tU">USCG <em>Bristol Bay</em> breaking ice.</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3W9fv-zCo">
This 1970s Coast Guard film entitled ICE (narrated by John Flynn) shows the icy gauntlet of the arctic, the Bering Sea, North Atlantic and Alaska.</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/jFwJjVdiLLY">History of the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreakers</a>:
<blockquote><em>This is a documentary I made the is narrated by Captain Bruce Toney. It is meant to be an educational video on the history of the mission to Antarctica and the capabilities on our ships. Some of it is a bit goofy since I made it while underway and did not take it seriously enough to be a legitimate documentary. It does, however, provide a unique perspective of the boat from the crew perspective. All video and photos were taken by U.S. Coast Guard members.</em></blockquote>
<strong>Russia</strong>
The world's first polar icebreaker, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yermak_(1898_icebreaker)"><em>Yermak</em></a>, was Russian.
Russia now operates seven <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker#Russian_nuclear_icebreakers">nuclear icebreakers</a>, including the world's largest, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Let_Pobedy"><em>50 let Pobedy</em></a> ("50 Years of Victory")
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRRy6t5K3R4">Voyage to North Pole on Nuclear Icebreaker '50 Years of Victory'</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6OHHGrVM3g">RTE documentary on the <em>50 let Pobedy</em></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQw7mZj0FOM">The largest icebreaker in the world</a>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltika_(icebreaker)"><em>Baltika</em></a>: watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwe0MHRaqhA">Ice trials on 19 March - 10 April 2015</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ueoZX774fs">Seven Seas of Ice: Russia's icebreakers traverse top of the world</a>
<strong>Finland</strong>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSy2PM8_5CQ">The Finnish icebreaker <em>Otso</em> cutting sealanes across the Gulf of Bothnia near the arctic circle.</a>
The <em>Sisu</em> and <em>Urho</em> are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atle-class_icebreaker">sister ships</a>.
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXODXlxZrJk"><em>Urho</em></a> in action
The <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ23P1JMpRY">Sisu</a></em> in action
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v8vbq">1974 documentary of the <em>Sisu</em> operating in the Baltic</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx8yld7i7w">Walk in front of an icebreaker ship (1920s)</a>
<strong>Norway</strong>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoCGV_Svalbard">KV Svalbard</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAedgxfNh14">Video of KV Svalbard ramming a sea ice pressure ridge</a> (with appropriate music playing on the bridge)
<strong>Sweden</strong>
The Swedish icebreaker <em>Oden</em> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oden_(1988_icebreaker)">"built to clear a passage through the ice of the Gulf of Bothnia for cargo ships, it was later modified to serve as a research vessel."</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_fWaW4psI">In 2006 the National Science Foundation hired the Swedish icebreaker Oden to create a channel through a 15-mile band of ice blockquoteing its Antarctic research base, McMurdo Station, from the sea.</a>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymer_(1976_icebreaker)"><em>Ymer</em></a> in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqrpg_9jJkY">action</a>.
<strong>The work icebreakers and their crews do can point out consequences of climate change:</strong>
<a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/01/melting-beats-coast-guard-kennebec-river-ice.html">Melting Beats Coast Guard to Kennebec River Ice</a>
The crew of the <em>KV Svalbard</em> made a <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/01/30/an-icebreaker-with-no-ice-to-break-in-blue-arctic/?platform=hootsuite#.Vu2QoOIrKU">disturbing discovery in the Arctic this year</a>:
<blockquote><em>At this time of year, sea ice usually closes in around Svalbard's northern and eastern coasts. But not this year. The sturdy 340-foot-long, 6,375-ton KV Svalbard had no ice to break, reports Oddvar Larsen, the ship's First Engineer.</em></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG87n5DzdtI">NOAA animation of the Arctic's oldest ice each week since 1990</a>
<strong>But back to international cooperation for a second. Meetups are easier when there's an icebreaker or two to help everyone feel at ease...</strong>
<a href="https://youtu.be/7w5LrFx-wdY">USCGC <em>Healy</em> and <em>Oden</em> meet at the North Pole.</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/VVtDX46cTJQ"><em>50 let Pobedy</em> leaving <em>Oden</em> after working together for 14 days</a>
<strong>Where are some of these icebreakers right now? You can find out...</strong>
<a href="http://www.marinfo.gc.ca/en/Glaces/PositionsBG.php">This page provides the position and description of activities for the Canadian Coast Guard units assigned to Icebreaking Services</a>
Marine traffic data for the vessels featured in this post:
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:380038/mmsi:316001890/vessel:SAMUEL%20RISLEY">CCGS <em>Samuel Risley</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:380058/mmsi:316001988/vessel:SIPU%20MUIN">CCGS <em>Sipu Muin</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/index/search/all?keyword=mamilossa">CCGS <em>Mamilossa</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:3434441/mmsi:316286000/vessel:GRIFFON">CCGS <em>Griffon</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:381660/mmsi:8409329/vessel:CCGS%20HENRY%20LARSEN">CCGS <em>Henry Larsen</em>
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<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:457678/mmsi:369992000/vessel:MACKINAW">USCG <em>Mackinaw</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:433130/mmsi:366999978/vessel:CG%20BRISTOL%20BAY">USCG <em> Bristol Bay</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:439862/mmsi:367255000/vessel:POLAR%20STAR">USCGC <em>Polar Star</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:359133/mmsi:303902000/vessel:HEALY">USCGC Healy</a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/index/search/all?keyword=baltika"><em>Baltika</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:346081/mmsi:273316240/vessel:50%20LET%20POBEDY"><em>50 let Pobedy</em></a>
<em><a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:4877/mmsi:230252000/vessel:OTSO">Otso</a></em>
<em><a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:4950/mmsi:230290000/vessel:URHO">Urho</a></em>
<em><a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:4948/mmsi:230289000/vessel:SISU">Sisu</a></em>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:313381/mmsi:259040000/vessel:SVALBARD"><em>KV Svalbard</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:319956/mmsi:265182000/vessel:ODEN"><em>Oden</em></a>
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:319809/mmsi:265066000/imo:7505346/vessel:YMER"><em>Ymer</em></a>
Previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/127762/Some-days-we-traveled-backwards-to-travel-forwards">"Some days we traveled backwards to travel forwards."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.158027Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:47:01 -0800mandolin conspiracyBrush your teeth, do your homework, and speak Finnish.http://www.metafilter.com/157169/Brush%2Dyour%2Dteeth%2Ddo%2Dyour%2Dhomework%2Dand%2Dspeak%2DFinnish
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-HI2eRXdU8">Learn everything you need to know about Finnish</a>&mdash;<em>the secret language of Finland</em>&mdash;with Kirikou. Jump wantonly, and learn the magic of verbal derivational suffixes. Kiitos! Anteeksi. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.157169Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:35:30 -0800ocherdracoUBI in NYThttp://www.metafilter.com/156206/UBI%2Din%2DNYT
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/sunday/payback-time-for-women.html">It's Payback Time for Women</a> - "Society is getting a <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/01/05/460801951/will-more-day-care-help-boost-japans-sluggish-economy">free ride</a> on our <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/151267/Wheres-My-Cut-On-Unpaid-Emotional-Labor#6163235">unrewarded contributions</a> to the perpetuation of the human race." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/402bk6/universal_basic_income_in_the_new_york_times_today/">via</a>) also btw...
<ul><li><a href="http://www.interfluidity.com/uploads/2015/09/ethereumsv-ubi-talk-light-reedit.pdf">Perspectives on a Universal Basic Income</a> - "A universal basic income would be an exceptionally useful addition to the conventional social-democratic state policy mix, from a variety of different perspectives." (<a href="https://twitter.com/interfluidity/status/684200974286651393">srw</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://evonomics.com/argument-for-universal-basic-income/">The Argument for Universal Basic Income</a> - "What stands in its way?" (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3y7oq5/the_capitalist_argument_for_universal_basic/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62PfsX1Hxx4#t=5m23s">Basic Income: How do we get there?</a> - "Brian Eno, David Graeber and Frances Coppola lead a discussion." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3wc7ti/basic_income_how_do_we_get_there_brian_eno_david/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://data4america.org/basic-income/">Model your own basic income</a> - "Would a basic income work? Does it add up? How large could it be?" (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3ypj98/modeling_basic_income_does_it_add_up/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2015/12/08/this-is-why-finland-is-able-to-implement-the-basic-income-experiment/">Finland is introducing experimentation to politics on both national and city level</a> - "This is why Finland is able to implement the basic income experiment. Instead of <a href="http://www.demos.org/blog/12/10/15/finlands-basic-income-experiment">speculating on the impact</a> of proposed policies such as basic income and environmental taxes, <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/12/8/9872554/finland-basic-income-experiment">Finland will now experiment</a>, measure and scale." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3vz77p/this_is_why_finland_is_able_to_implement_the/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/study_over_half_the_population_supports_basic_income_scheme/8583547">Over half of the Finnish population supports basic income scheme</a> - "The clear majority, 68 percent, believe that a <a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/should-governments-give-away-more-money-basic-income-finland-welfare">basic income</a> from the government would <a href="https://thebillfold.com/finland-is-testing-basic-income-but-not-for-the-reasons-you-think-138b2cf3bddc">make it easier</a> to start a business, and would also mitigate the financial difficulties after the fact, if the business failed to succeed. Support for the idea came from all segments of the population, but the most backing came from entrepreneurs, the unemployed and students." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/40ay8z/over_half_of_the_finnish_population_supports/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/inequality-work-hours/422775/">Why Do Americans Work So Much?</a> - "The prosperity Keynes predicted is here. After all, the economy as a whole has grown even more brilliantly than he expected. But for most Americans, that prosperity is nowhere to be seen—and, as a result, neither are those shorter workweeks." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/400dib/why_do_americans_work_so_much_the_prosperity/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/39/less-work-more-leisure/">Less Work, More Leisure</a> - "The best path to ensure that workers can secure a share of the gains in economic growth is a full-employment economy, like the one we saw in the late 1990s. <a href="http://www.demos.org/blog/7/16/15/should-americans-work-more-absolutely-not">Shortening work</a> time is not just good, family-friendly policy—it might be the quickest path to full employment." (<a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/01/less-work-more-leisure.html">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://richardhserlin.blogspot.com/2015/11/robotai-revolution-decimating.html">Our final job may be ourselves</a> - "If we can maintain a democracy, in spite of the efforts of many <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/686245162222129156">plutocrats</a>, then large-scale redistribution will probably be inevitable. But of course, there will be an aversion to just giving people money without it being earned. But there, a solution I see is allowing people to earn it by working to become better people, and citizens. The redistribution can be money paid for the job of being a student; getting a college degree, a graduate degree, passing expertise exams,... Or, money paid for hours spent on a physical fitness program, or studying chess and improving your intellect and game, or Tai Chi, Yoga, psychological study, or therapy..." (<a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2015/12/beating-a-dead-robotic-horse.html">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/133246182760/how-and-why-to-expand-the-nonprofit-sector-as-a">How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government</a> - "A public contribution program requires donations to charity in place of higher taxes–or if what needed to be done were less expensive–allowed tax reductions accompanied by required donations. The basic logic is that, in areas where it is possible, public goods should be provided by the nonprofit sector rather than government, with government's role in those areas being pared back to making sure that people direct enough resources toward that provision of public goods by the nonprofit sector." (<a href="https://twitter.com/mileskimball/status/686243533297172481">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/externalities-and-public-goods-theory-or-society">Externalities and Public Goods: Theory OR Society?</a> - "How people act is a question of their understanding of themselves and not merely of their instrumental reasoning regarding incentives: the standard theory of externalities and public goods is in this perspective a particular if very important case. The extent to which public goods are provided depends on who we see as part of 'ourselves' and what we see as 'ours.' " (<a href="http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/the-future-of-economics/1598-sanjay-reddy-on-externalities-and-public-goods">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/basic-income/basic-income-basic-solutions-for-basic-problems-df8d629cf8b9">A Fundamentally American Idea</a> - "In the form of a citizen's dividend, it goes back to Thomas Paine through his recognition of the significance of the loss of the Commons to the average person. The founders understood the value of land and having (equal) access to it, and they realized it was upon land that economies and lives were built. The early government lacked an income tax for the reason the federal government was able to gain so much money from the sale and taxation of land. Paine's insight was that financial gain from public resources, especially when given away and privatized, should be shared to some minimal degree with the citizens that the government constitutionally represents. Later American thinkers such as the 19th century Henry George had related ideas." (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3ynubs/a_fundamentally_american_idea_basic_income/">via</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/guaranteed-income%E2%80%99s-moment-sun">Guaranteed income's moment in the sun</a> - "In August 1969, in the eighth month of his presidency, Richard Nixon delivered a speech proposing the replacement of AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] with a program that would benefit 'the working poor, as well as the nonworking; to families with dependent children headed by a father, as well as those headed by a mother'. In case the point was missed, he continued: 'What I am proposing is that the Federal Government build a foundation under the income of every American family with dependent children that cannot care for itself — and wherever in America that family may live'. Guaranteed annual income had arrived. From the margins of economic thought just a generation earlier, the GAI was now at the heart of President Nixon's domestic policy agenda in the form of the 'Family Assistance Plan' (FAP)." (<a href="http://www.techinsider.io/ai-expert-jeremy-howard-on-universal-basic-income-2015-12">via</a>)</li></ul> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156206Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:48:59 -0800kliulessThank you very much. It would be nice to have a mountain.http://www.metafilter.com/155943/Thank%2Dyou%2Dvery%2Dmuch%2DIt%2Dwould%2Dbe%2Dnice%2Dto%2Dhave%2Da%2Dmountain
Finland celebrates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Declaration_of_Independence">100 years of independence</a> in 2017. Norway is <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/europe/norway-mountain-gift-finland/index.html">bringing a mountain to the party</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.155943Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:08:20 -0800adept256"I'm getting to be a rather old Santa Claus. A little lonely as well"http://www.metafilter.com/155802/Im%2Dgetting%2Dto%2Dbe%2Da%2Drather%2Dold%2DSanta%2DClaus%2DA%2Dlittle%2Dlonely%2Das%2Dwell
<a href="https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/the-santa-claus-letter-by-tove-jansson/">In 1963 Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated a letter from Santa Claus</a> for the Finnish post office, which was inundated with letters to Santa. It has now been <a href="https://d1vxw9s9d8pjrr.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Tove-Jansson-Korvatunturi-Letter-S.jpg">scanned</a> and posted by the Moomin company on its <a href="https://www.moomin.com/en/blog">blog</a> as part of its regular series of <a href="https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/tag/letters-from-tove/">letters from Tove Jansson</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.155802Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:26:02 -0800KattullusEverybody needs a thneedhttp://www.metafilter.com/154706/Everybody%2Dneeds%2Da%2Dthneed
The Kesla 28RH is a machine that turns trees into logs. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUu5ynwXb0">Very quickly.</a> (SLYT) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154706Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:00:21 -0800theodoliteSiinä kaikkihttp://www.metafilter.com/153669/Siin%2Dkaikki
While the end of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/farewell-to-sabado-gigante/">Sábado Gigante's</a> 53 year television run has received <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441666245/long-running-variety-show-sabado-gigante-comes-to-an-end">heavy press coverage</a>, earlier this year another foreign-language television show ended a 53 year reign with a single host: <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-53-years-tvs-finland-calling-is-finnished-1427414613">Finland Calling</a>. Broadcast in Michigan's <a href="http://finntimes.com/?p=243">Upper Peninsula</a> (the region with the only <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg">Finnish plurality</a> in the United States), <a href="http://michiganradio.org/post/local-tv-program-finland-calling-comes-end-after-53-years#stream/0">Carl Pellonpaa</a> hosted every episode in the show's history. Watch a segment in English and Finnish <a href="http://finntimes.com/?p=237">here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153669Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:04:33 -0800Turkey GlueBasic Income: How to Fix a Broken Monetary Transmission Mechanismhttp://www.metafilter.com/152714/Basic%2DIncome%2DHow%2Dto%2DFix%2Da%2DBroken%2DMonetary%2DTransmission%2DMechanism
<a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/06/finland-new-government-commits-to-a-basic-income-experiment/">FINLAND</a>: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33977636">New Government Commits to a Basic Income Experiment</a> - "<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34063157">The Finnish</a> government of <a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/06/finland-basic-income-government-schizophrenia/">Juha Sipilä is considering a pilot project</a> that would <a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/07/finnish-leaders-change-minds-basic-income/">give everyone</a> of working age a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Finland">basic income</a>."[<a href="http://www.oecd.org/finland/35203549.pdf">1</a>,<a href="http://koti.kapsi.fi/~kliment/nonpublic/basicincome.pdf">2</a>,<a href="http://finlandindepth.blogspot.com/2014/11/unconditional-basic-income-logical-next.html">3</a>] (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3hpbt3/finland_considers_basic_income_to_reform_welfare/">v</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3ho038/finland_considers_basic_income_to_reform_welfare/">i</a><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090542">a</a>) <blockquote>"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." — <a href="https://twitter.com/RJSzczerba/status/637593072063352832">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/637593354377822209">Keynesian</a></blockquote>
So there are a <a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2013/02/opinion-the-one-minute-case-for-a-basic-income/">number of reasons</a> why you might <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index">support a basic income</a>,† not least of which is the moral case -- <a href="http://continuations.com/post/125951661145/whats-your-purpose">What's Your Purpose</a>?<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/02/2139229/fair-and-repeated-warning-humans-your-purpose-is-at-risk/">*</a> -- but <a href="http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/482/what-are-the-reasons-for-people-to-oppose-basic-income-guarantee">why is it necessary</a> now? Consider a basic income within the context of a pretty, er, basic economic framework...
<small>Quick economics lesson in national income and product accounting: The economy as measured by <abbr title="Gross Domestic Product">GDP</abbr> can be composed of all the consumer spending (or private consumption), business purchases ('investment'), government services (+public investment) and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/152477/My-God-its-full-of-dots">trade with the rest of the world</a> (net exports) -- <abbr title="GDP">Y</abbr>=<abbr title="''consumption''">C</abbr>+<abbr title="''investment''">I</abbr>+<abbr title="''government''">G</abbr>+<abbr title="net exports">NX</abbr> -- done in a year, which also happens to equal all the income people make in a year within a given geographic boundary, <abbr title="Gross Domestic Income">GDI</abbr>. Note that all this works, for the most part, because what's being counted are <i>monetary transactions</i> made commensurable under <a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/what-is-price-theory.html">price theory</a>. That is, apples and oranges can be added up because money (and "<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1975/presentation-speech.html">prices</a>" can be attributed to stuff). Also note that GDP can be divided into a 'real' component (RGDP) and a 'price' component (<abbr title="technically known as an ''Implicit Price Deflator'' (IPD)">P</abbr>) as <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/07/18/googles-hal-varian-on-where-all-the-productivity-has-gone/">measured by the government's best efforts</a> to gauge inflation. So, in a sense, real GDP is actually more "made up" than the 'nominal' GDP (NGDP) from which it's derived. In other words, <abbr title="really its % chg.">RGDP</abbr> = <abbr title="again this should be expressed as a % chg.">NGDP</abbr> – <abbr title="IPD">P</abbr>, a sampling of price level changes.
All this exposition to set up a simpler, but profound, equation from a <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/money">monetary</a> <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/money2">economics</a> perspective: <a href="http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/05/identity-economics.html">MV=PY</a>. In this case Y is RGDP (or quantity of output, estimated) and P is price (estimated); put them together and you're back to NGDP. The other side of the equation is where it gets interesting. All the <i>monetary transactions</i> that take place in an economy -- NGDP -- are equal to the amount of money provided by your friendly neighborhood central bank -- the money supply (M) -- combined with the frequency of all those transactions -- its velocity (V) -- that are conducted through the course of a year, thanks to all your hard work; good job everybody!
So how about giving ourselves a (collective) raise? Crucially, while the money supply can largely be controlled by central banks, its velocity is less determined, especially with interest rates around the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0#t=18m">world stuck</a> near the 'zero lower bound'. What does velocity depend upon then? To a proximate degree, it's the quality with which the financial system interacts with the real economy. For example, how well have the stewards of capitalism done at allocating and managing capital resources (like your savings, or lack thereof) towards productive endeavours that raise the general welfare? While it may be a <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/multipliers-what-we-should-have-known/">bit of a mystery</a>, and by turns economists will wave their hands and point to 'confidence fairies' and 'animal spirits', they can also invoke 'exogenous variables' like <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-31/maybe-this-global-slowdown-is-different">population growth</a>/<a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/05/part-ii-demographics-are-now-improving.html">demographics</a>, (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ianbremmer/photos/a.382808748558842.1073741831.381748875331496/431219717051078/">geo</a>)<a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2015/08/wealth-and-income-distribution-new-theories-needed-for-a-new-era-.html">politics</a> and <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/20/2137996/productivity-polarisation-in-our-modern-times/">the rate</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/interfluidity/status/635080860249772032">technological change</a> or <a href="http://ashokarao.com/2014/03/11/one-myth-of-climate-change-and-its-economic-conclusion/">environmental degradation</a>.
Hopefully you can start to <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/adfaf156-39cb-11e5-8613-07d16aad2152.html">see the outlines</a> of how a basic income might help to remedy the situation. By putting money directly into the hands of its citizens, central banks (or a fiscal authority) could more directly control the velocity of money without having to rely on the vagaries and <a href="https://twitter.com/edwardnh/status/638719051179651072">vicissitudes of the financial system</a>. And moreover, if everyone's basic needs were met (and affordable with the income provided, that is, <a href="https://twitter.com/ramez/status/638582407021613056">not too inflationary</a>), the confidence fairies would be dancing. Instead of just for banks and owners of financial assets, a basic income would be a <a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/03/europe-quantitative-easing-for-people/">quantitative easing for the people</a>.</small>
Anyway, a basic income is just one of many ways people are thinking about <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJCentralBanks/status/638458867131789312">raising velocity</a> and fixing a <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/193da290-4ef5-11e5-8642-453585f2cfcd.html">broken monetary transmission mechanism</a>. Here are some others:
<ol><li><a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ib_37.htm">Wage subsidies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/08/must-re-read-yes-you-do-need-to-reread-this-and-i-do-still-find-myself-disturbed-by-a-division-in-the-ranks-of-those-o.html">4% inflation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/125403306238/quartz-64-radical-banking-the-world-needs-new">-4% interest rates</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/08/barry-eichengreen-secular-stagnation-the-long-viewhttppubsaeaweborgdoipdfplus101257aerp20151104-americ.html">Safe asset issuance</a> to <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/cms/s/3/cf201078-4b23-11e5-9b5d-89a026fda5c9.html">finance infrastructure spending</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2015/02/can-helicopter-money-be-democratic.html" title="to deliberately conflate monetary helicopter drops and fiscal stimulus/basic income">Money-financed fiscal stimulus</a>/<a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/08/corbynomics-meh.html">gov't expenditure</a> (<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/3/9178bbc8-3f41-11e5-b98b-87c7270955cf.html">helicoptor money in general</a>)<a href="http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/128239261506/owen-nie-marylands-1733-monetary-helicopter-drop">*</a></li>
<li>Or <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8a5cb030-4b38-11e5-9b5d-89a026fda5c9.html">business</a> as <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a1b49bae-5226-11e5-8642-453585f2cfcd.html">usual</a>?</li></ol>
On that note and under current circumstances, <a href="http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/09/if-we-dont-understand-both-sides-of-chinas-balance-sheet-we-understand-neither/">China</a> -- <a href="https://twitter.com/boes_/status/636681736777256961">like Japan</a> (and the US, Eurozone, etc.) -- provides a <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/3/29330f70-5218-11e5-b029-b9d50a74fd14.html">fascinating case study</a> on the <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/638851623331229700">limits</a> of <a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/a-simple-primer-for-understanding-chinas-downturn.html">fiscal-monetary policy</a>.
also btw...
<ul><li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/07/dutch-municipalities-experiments/">30 Dutch Municipalities show Interest in Experimenting with Basic Income</a>[<a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/netherlands-independent-liberal-party-says-time-basic-income/">*</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/uk-jeremy-corbyn-richard-murphy-and-basic-income/">UNITED KINGDOM: Jeremy Corbyn, candidate for Labour Party leader, recruits Basic Income advocate to draft economic plan</a>[<a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/09/jeremy-gilbert-a-10-point-programme-for-21st-century-socialism/">*</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/07/bernie-sanders-absolutely-sympathetic-basic-income/">UNITED STATES: Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, "absolutely sympathetic" to basic income approach</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/canada-pirate-party-of-canada-makes-basic-income-a-major-part-of-their-platform/">CANADA: Pirate Party of Canada Makes Basic Income a Major Part of their Platform</a>[<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3jesk3/new_democrats_call_for_a_guaranteed_basic_income/">*</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/05/france-opinion-poll-support-basic-income/">FRANCE: Opinion Poll Shows 60% Support for Basic Income</a>[<a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/07/region-aquitaine-feasibility-pilots/">*</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/opinion-poll-support-catalonia-region/">SPAIN: Opinion Poll shows 72% support for basic income in Catalonia Region</a>[<a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/daniel-raventos-and-julie-wark-the-basic-income-debate-political-philosophical-and-economic-issues/">*</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/08/greece-government-to-roll-out-a-guaranteed-minimum-income-scheme/">GREECE: Government to roll out a Guaranteed Minimum Income scheme</a></li></ul>
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†<small><a href="http://www.rawillumination.net/2015/08/finland-to-run-basic-income-experiment.html">Robert Anton Wilson</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/27lrud/the_rich_economy_robert_anton_wilson_on_basic/">fwiw</a>, was a basic income proponent (<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400235.4545;wap2">reconceptualizing money as biosurvival tickets</a> in <a href="http://fusionanomaly.net/prometheusrising.html">Prometheus Rising</a> ;) <a href="https://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/rawilson.html">writing in 1980</a>: "<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MG27Dj02.html">The National Dividend</a>. This was invented by engineer C. H. Douglas and has been revived with some modifications by poet Ezra Pound and designer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT6r9u8Rumg">Buckminster Fuller</a>. The basic idea (although Douglas, Pound, and Fuller differ on the details) is that every citizen should be declared a <a href="http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2015/07/30/sovereign-equity-a-way-forward-on-sovereign-debt/">shareholder in the nation</a>, and should receive <a href="https://twitter.com/edwardnh/status/638430950947471360">dividends on the Gross National Product for the year</a>. Estimates differ as to how much this would be for each citizen, but at the current level of the GNP it is conservative to say that a share would be worth several times as much, per year, as a welfare recipient receives -- at least five times more. Critics complain that this would be inflationary. Supporters of the National Dividend reply that it would only be inflationary if the dividends distributed were more than the GNP; and they are proposing only to issue dividends equal to the GNP."</small>
<blockquote>"No religion or extant philosophy offers the guidance humans will need to fulfil our destiny in the next 200 years. We must improvise." --@<a href="https://twitter.com/azizonomics/status/636187636395286529" title="remember folks">azizonomics</a>
"You know what's depressing? The Cthulhu mythos is actually a more accurate depiction of reality than most popular religions." --@<a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/634772030383095813" title="hence">Noahpinion</a></blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152714Fri, 04 Sep 2015 01:01:15 -0800kliuless"You're so sadly neglected And often ignored A poor second to Belgium"http://www.metafilter.com/151967/Youre%2Dso%2Dsadly%2Dneglected%2DAnd%2Doften%2Dignored%2DA%2Dpoor%2Dsecond%2Dto%2DBelgium
"<a href="http://harpers.org/blog/2015/08/perfect-compromise/">Welcome to the nerve-wracking reality of being Finland.</a> To a casual visitor, it seems like yet another Western European country, a placid paradise with its abundance of bicycles, its obsession with its own mid-twentieth-century design, and stores that close punctually at six in the evening. The Finns feel otherwise. When they go to neighboring Sweden, they say they are "going to Europe." As it happens, neither country is a member of NATO, but only Finland has a long land border with Russia—and a living memory of having been invaded by the Soviet Union." Sofi Oksanen, <a href="http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2015-06-19-oksanen-en.html">A Lion In A Cage</a>
see also: <a href="http://satwcomic.com/deer-hunt">A Day In the Life</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151967Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:21:14 -0800the man of twists and turnsSauna Mänual ov Finland Mänhttp://www.metafilter.com/151608/Sauna%2DMnual%2Dov%2DFinland%2DMn
<a href="http://www.hs.fi/blogi/narrienlaiva/a1305962808651">Sauna Mänual ov Finland Män – 7 Ruuls You Must Knou.</a> Finland Män häv rispekt for thö Sauna. Thö wörld is kold, thö Sauna is worm. Tis is ofishöl Sauna Mänual ov Finland Män. (Sauna Mänual ov Finland Vomän. Seim äs Män but dount care apaut neipör kar. Then throu Löyly.) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151608Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:05:41 -0800severiinaSurely it can't happen here.....can it?http://www.metafilter.com/151550/Surely%2Dit%2Dcant%2Dhappen%2Dherecan%2Dit
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/scandinavia-far-right-stolen-left-ground-welfare">How the Nordic far-right has stolen the left's ground on welfare</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151550Sun, 26 Jul 2015 09:15:31 -0800lalocheziaand only 113 days until next season!http://www.metafilter.com/150498/and%2Donly%2D113%2Ddays%2Duntil%2Dnext%2Dseason
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/ct-blackhawks-lightning-spt-0616-20150615-story.html">The Chicago Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup</a>, and <a href="http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2015/6/15/8787315/kimmo-timonen-champion">24 years after it all began Kimmo Timonen can finally call himself a champion</a>. But before he got to hoist it, the Cup had to get there - it was <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25215636/the-stanley-cup-was-delayed-getting-to-the-united-center-due-to-weather">delayed due to weather</a>. But that's okay - it <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25215050/the-stanley-cup-wasnt-in-the-building-when-blackhawks-won-in-1938">wasn't in the building when the Blackhawks won in 1938</a>, either. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150498Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:29:57 -0800everybody had matching towelsFree tuition around the world, a different sort of study abroadhttp://www.metafilter.com/150197/Free%2Dtuition%2Daround%2Dthe%2Dworld%2Da%2Ddifferent%2Dsort%2Dof%2Dstudy%2Dabroad
While the status of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-dash/a-guide-to-obamas-free-co_b_6801726.html">Obama's "American College Promise" initiative</a> that proposes two free years of community college for "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QDfEMXAgk">everybody who's willing to work for it</a>" (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/145959/Free-Community-College">announced back in January</a>) is far from certain, The Washington Post identified seven countries -- <a href="https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programs/en/">Germany</a>, <a href="http://www.studyinfinland.fi/tuition_and_scholarships/tuition_fees">Finland</a>, <a href="http://www.campusfrance.org/en/page/programs-taught-english">France</a>, <a href="https://studyinsweden.se/universities/">Sweden</a>, <a href="http://www.studyinnorway.no/Study-in-Norway/Tuition">Norway</a>, <a href="http://www.studyineurope.eu/study-in-slovenia/in-english">Slovenia</a>, and <a href="http://www.scienceforbrazil.com/free-postgrad-courses-in-english-for-foreigners-at-unesp-university/">Brazil</a> -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/">where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free)</a>, and <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678">BBC's News Magazine recently detailed how this works in Germany</a>, both from the side of a new student from outside of Germany, and what Germany gets out of the situation. But if you want to stay in the US, <a href="http://time.com/money/2977702/22-colleges-free-tuition-moneys-best-colleges/">TIME identifies 25 colleges where you can get a tuition for free</a> (with a number of caveats, of course). tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150197Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:04:47 -0800filthy light thief"Some of them wear high heels..."http://www.metafilter.com/149992/Some%2Dof%2Dthem%2Dwear%2Dhigh%2Dheels
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbM9uCxEJDM&amp;feature=youtu.be">US vs. Nordic Policing</a> How many shots are needed? tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149992Thu, 28 May 2015 08:31:13 -0800zeikkaThe irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymoushttp://www.metafilter.com/148070/The%2Dirrationality%2Dof%2DAlcoholics%2DAnonymous
<em>Its faith-based 12-step program dominates treatment in the United States. But researchers have debunked central tenets of AA doctrine and found dozens of other treatments more effective.</em><br><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/?google_editors_picks=true">Gabrielle Glaser explores alcohol-use disorder treatment of many types in a lengthy (quite lengthy) article for The Atlantic.</a> <blockquote>The Finns are famously private, so I had to go early in the morning, before any patients arrived, to meet Jukka Keski-Pukkila, the CEO. He poured coffee and showed me around the clinic, in downtown Helsinki. The most common course of treatment involves six months of cognitive behavioral therapy, a goal-oriented form of therapy, with a clinical psychologist. Treatment typically also includes a physical exam, blood work, and a prescription for naltrexone or nalmefene, a newer opioid antagonist approved in more than two dozen countries. When I asked how much all of this cost, Keski-Pukkila looked uneasy. "Well," he told me, "it's 2,000 euros." That's about $2,500—a fraction of the cost of inpatient rehab in the United States, which routinely runs in the tens of thousands of dollars for a 28-day stay.
When I told Keski-Pukkila this, his eyes grew wide. "What are they doing for that money?" he asked. I listed some of the treatments offered at top-of-the-line rehab centers: equine therapy, art therapy, mindfulness mazes in the desert. "That doesn't sound scientific," he said, perplexed. I didn't mention that some bare-bones facilities charge as much as $40,000 a month and offer no treatment beyond AA sessions led by minimally qualified counselors.</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148070Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:10:05 -0800hippybearUSA vs Scandinaviahttp://www.metafilter.com/146928/USA%2Dvs%2DScandinavia
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/northern-lights-4">Do the Scandinavians really have it all figured out?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146928Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:36:42 -080000dimitri00"a question of human dignity", said the archbishophttp://www.metafilter.com/144946/a%2Dquestion%2Dof%2Dhuman%2Ddignity%2Dsaid%2Dthe%2Darchbishop
On Friday Finland's parliament narrowly approved a law for marriage equality. <a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/11/28/finland_becomes_an_unlikely_battleground_for_same_sex_marriage_debate">The Foreign Policy blog takes a look at why it took so long to do so</a> compared to its neighbours. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144946Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:56:35 -0800MartinWisseWinter Warhttp://www.metafilter.com/144933/Winter%2DWar
<a href="http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/winter_war/">Finland</a> commemorates the <a href="http://www.winterwar.com/">75 anniversary</a> of the <a href="http://rt.com/news/finland-soviet-war-anniversary/">start</a> of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2FqMUVZzc">Winter War</a> today with <a href="http://www.feldgrau.com/wwar.html">services</a> held <a href="http://ar.to/2010/08/red-blood-white-snow">across the country</a>. Hostilities <a href="http://www.schneeland.com/web/stites.html">began</a> on 30 November <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/winter_war_1939.htm">1939</a> with an attack <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwQmwbQttkY&feature=youtu.be">by the</a> Soviet Union <a href="http://finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?contentid=180095">including</a> bombing <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/finland-in-world-war-ii/100519/">raids</a> on <a href="http://finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?contentid=160097&nodeid=37598&culture=en-US">the capital</a> Helsinki. <a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/parliament_to_recreate_winter_war_evacuation/7660514?origin=rss">via</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144933Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:28:43 -0800infini